Deconstructing flexicurity and developing alternative approaches : towards new concepts and approaches for employment and social policy

edited by Maarten Keune and Amparo Serrano

In recent years, the concept of flexicurity has come to occupy a central place in political and academic debates regarding employment and social policy. It fosters a view in which the need for continuously increasing flexibility is the basic assumption, and the understanding of security increasingly moves from social protection to self-insurance or individual adaptability. Moreover, it rejects the traditional contradictions between flexibility and security, blending the two into a single notion and thus depoliticizing the relationships between capital and labour. This volume provides a critical discussion of the flexicurity concept, the theories upon which it is built and the ideas that it transmits about work, unemployment and social justice. It shows that flexicurity fosters the further individualization of social protection, an increase in precariousness and the further weakening of labour in relation to capital. The authors present a series of alternative theoretical, normative and policy approaches that provide due attention to the collective and political dimension of vulnerability and allow for the development of new societal projects based on alternative values and assumptions.

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  • 1. The Power to Name and Struggles over Meaning: The Concept of Flexicurity Maarten Keune and Amparo Serrano 2. Class Relations and Labour Market Reforms Colin Crouch 3. From Flexicurity to Social Employment Regimes Carlos Prieto 4. Inequality as a Central Component in the Redefinition of Security: The Case of Gender Maria Jepsen 5. Beyond Flexibility: Active Securities for Flexible Employment Relationship Gunther Schmid 6. Labour, Capabilities and Situated Democracy Robert Salais 7. From Flexicurity to Capabilities: In Search of Professional Development Benedicte Zimmerman 8. Life-First Welfare, and the Scope for a "Eudemonic Ethic" of Social Security Hartley Dean 9. Quality of Employment: An Alternative to Flexicurity? Dominique Meda

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書名 Deconstructing flexicurity and developing alternative approaches : towards new concepts and approaches for employment and social policy
著作者等 Serrano Amparo
Keune Maarten
シリーズ名 Routledge advances in sociology
出版元 Routledge
刊行年月 2014
ページ数 xii, 203 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 9780415634267
NCID BB15778128
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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